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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGun used to kill Trayvon Martin sold for $250,000: TV reports
Source: Reuters
World | Fri May 20, 2016 8:50pm EDT
Gun used to kill Trayvon Martin sold for $250,000: TV reports
BY KAREN BROOKS
George Zimmerman said he has sold the gun he used to kill unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012 for $250,000, television stations in Orlando and Las Vegas reported on Friday.
Zimmerman could not be reached to verify the reports by KTNV in Las Vegas and WOFL in Orlando.
His offer to sell the Kel-Tec PF9 9mm handgun on UnitedGunGroup.com drew praise from gun rights supporters and scorn from critics who accused him of seeking to profit from the 17-year-old's death.
Online bidding for the gun ended on Wednesday.
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On his own website that day, Zimmerman said the auction had "raised funds for several worthy causes." He has said he would use proceeds to counter violence against law enforcement officers by the group Black Lives Matter and to fight Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's "anti-firearm rhetoric."
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Gun used to kill Trayvon Martin sold for $250,000: TV reports
BY KAREN BROOKS
George Zimmerman said he has sold the gun he used to kill unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012 for $250,000, television stations in Orlando and Las Vegas reported on Friday.
Zimmerman could not be reached to verify the reports by KTNV in Las Vegas and WOFL in Orlando.
His offer to sell the Kel-Tec PF9 9mm handgun on UnitedGunGroup.com drew praise from gun rights supporters and scorn from critics who accused him of seeking to profit from the 17-year-old's death.
Online bidding for the gun ended on Wednesday.
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On his own website that day, Zimmerman said the auction had "raised funds for several worthy causes." He has said he would use proceeds to counter violence against law enforcement officers by the group Black Lives Matter and to fight Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's "anti-firearm rhetoric."
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-zimmerman-idUSKCN0YB2RL
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Gun used to kill Trayvon Martin sold for $250,000: TV reports (Original Post)
Eugene
May 2016
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Initech
(100,118 posts)1. Ill gotten gains for a dirty scumbag used for horrible causes.
Last edited Sat May 21, 2016, 01:59 PM - Edit history (1)
Violence on law enforcement officers by Black Lives Matter? When has that ever happened?
And anti firearm rhetoric from Hillary Clinton? Good! Child murderers like Zimmerman should not be able to have access to firearms!
CivicGrief
(147 posts)2. I'm glad you did not use that POS's
name in your title.
I prefer TAWKTM (the asshole who killed Trayvon Martin).
DianaForRussFeingold
(2,552 posts)5. Karma
Welcome to DU! I wish the media would do the same.. Better not to think about it--It does no good. I pray for his parents. They sure don't deserve this. It's so sad-I wish the cops could have accidentally lost that gun, if you know what I mean.
Warpy
(111,407 posts)3. Well, that'll keep Zimmy in the lifestyle he thinks he deserves for a couple of years
Then it's all over. He's going to have to go out and get a job.
Eugene
(61,974 posts)4. He'll burn through that in no time
if the legal defense fund is any indication.